For this reason, it is sometimes a good idea to avoid creating symbolic links with relative path information. However, there are many cases where relative symbolic links come in handy. Consider an example where you want to create an alternate name for a program in /usr/bin:

# ls -l /usr/bin/keychain 
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        10150 Dec 12 20:09 /usr/bin/keychain